Fastener



' portion of the blank, from side to side,being piece of card-board, Fig. 5 showing a paper Nrrs STATES PATENT O FIC EMIL F. SCHULTZ, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,845, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed'August 8, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMIL F. SoHULTz, of Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fasteners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it pertains to make and use the saine.

My invention relates to improvements in fasteners that are designed more especially for attaching papers to either side or both sides of the article to which it is secured; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows a fastener-blank as it comes from the dies. Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively a side and edge view of the finished fastener; and Figs. 4 and 5 show said fastener secured to a attachment to one side of the card-board. Figs. 6, '7, 8, and 9 illustrate a slight modification.

The fastener-blank is cut from suitable sheet metal, preferably sheet-brass. I A represents a blank as it comes from the dies, suitable for making my improved fastener. The blank has long narrow longitudinal slits a, b, and c, that are parallel with one another, or approximately so, the central imperforate. Slits a b a divide the blank into four divisions or leaves, a, b, c, and d. Now by folding or collapsing the outer leaves a and cl against the intermediate leaves I) and c and then folding or collapsing the latter, or vice versa, the fastener shown in Figs. 2 and 3 is formed.

In applying the fastener to the article to which it is to be secured-for instance, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, to a piece of cardboardthe fastener is passed through the card-board until the imperforate portion 11 of the fastener has fully entered the card-board. The protruding portions of two of the leaves (in the instance shown the outer leaves a and d) are then folded down or clinched onto the card-board, and this constitutes the head of the fastener, securely holding the latterin place. The remaining two leaves (I) and 0) Serial No. 361,482. (No model.)

constitute the shank of the fastener, and the protruding portions of these leaves consti-.

tute the blades of the shank.

In Fig. 4: the blades of the shank are shown in position to receive papers on either side of the card-board, and Fig. 5 shows a paper attached to the card-board on one side thereof, the blades of the shank being clinched or folded down onto the attached paper for holding the latter in place.

A slight modification is illustrated in Figs. 6, 7, 8, and 9. In Fig. 6, that shows the blank, leaves 0 and d are left imperforate, having no slits between them. The folding or collapsing operation in making a fastener from this blank is, however, the same as that already described,theblankbeing shown partly folded in Fig. 7, and the finishedfastener being shown in Figs. 8 and 9, the latter showing it in position secured to a piece of card-board, leaves a and 01 forming the head in this instance, and leaves (1V and b the shank, the head thus being double and entirely to one side of the shank. The paper-fasteners heretofore in use were objectionable because they had no provision for positively holding them in place on the backing, and consequently the fasteners would slip out in attaching and removing papers.

With my improved construction, the head of the fastener being clinched or folded down on both sides of the article to which the fastener is secured, the fastener and attached papers cannot possibly become displaced, and papers, 850., can readily be detached from either side of the backing without disturbing those on the opposite side.

In stationery, dry-goods, and other stores samples of cloth, paper, 850., are frequently attached to both sides of a backing for showing to customers, and often it is desired to detach one or more samples from either side of the card-board; also, in banking houses papers are often fastened toboth sides of a leaf in a journal or other books, and itis not unfrequently desired to detach one or more of such papers from either or both sides of the leaf. In either of these cases and many others it is of considerable importance and a great convenience to be able to detach papers or samples as aforesaid from either side of the article to which they are attached withand the imperforate central portion of the fastener adapted to lie in an opening formed in a suitable backing to which the fastener is attached, one or more leaves adapted to be bent to clamp the fastener in place, and the .rest of the leaves forming shanks on one or both sides of the article to secure papers or similar devices, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Isign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 14th day of July, 1890.

v EMIL F. SCHULTZ. Witnesses;

CHAS. H. DORER, WARD HOOVER. 

